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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date1 November 1906
DescriptionPrinted minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken. Individual minutes are numbered.

Commencing with a list of Council members present: Dr. Shelford Bidwell; Sir Thomas Launder Brunton; John Norman Collie; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Wyndham Rowland Dunstan; John Bretland Farmer; Sir Archibald Geikie (Foreign Secretary); Francis Gotch; Dr. Sydney Frederic Harmer; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Edwin Ray Lankester; Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Dr. John Edward Marr; George Ballard Mathews; Hugh Frank Newall; John Perry; Ernest Henry Starling; William Augustus Tilden; the President, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, in the chair. The Assistant Secretary [Robert Harrison] attended.

Among matters discussed or noted:

1. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed as correct.
2. Lieutenant Colonel Prain to write the Obituary Notice of C.B. Clarke, as Professor Oliver was unable to do this.
3. Letter from the Secretary, Royal Commission on Vivisection, 25 October 1906, to the Secretary, the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: requesting the name of a representative of the Royal Society to give evidence before the Commission; with a reply letter, Secretaries of the Royal Society, 26 October 1906, to the Secretary, Royal Commission on Vivisection, noting that President and Council had discussed the matter the day before his letter was received and had decided to present a statement, but that the additional request would be considered at next Council. A resolution proposed by Professor Starling that no representative should be nominated, and a statement only presented: the draft statement prepared by the Secretaries was discussed and the matter adjourned.
4. Professor Rudolf Fittig proposed as a candidate to receive the Davy Medal, for his work on chemistry, especially lactones and acids.
5. Adjudication of Royal Society Medals: Copley Medal awarded to Professor Elias Metchnikoff; the Rumford Medal awarded to Professor Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Royal Medals to Professor Alfred George Greenhill and to Dr. Dukinfield Henry Scott; the Davy Medal to Professor Rudolf Fittig; the Darwin Medal to Professor Hugo de Vries; the Hughes Medal to Mrs [Hertha] Ayrton; leave granted to the Assistant Secretary to communicate awards to the public press, once assent had been give for the Royal Medal awards.
6. List of President, Officers and Members of Council to be recommended for election to serve during the next session, these to be communicated to the public press.
7. Appointment of auditors of the Treasurer's accounts.
8. Report of the Soiree Committee on arrangements and invitations to the Anniversary Dinner, adopted.
9. Annual Report of the Council to the Fellowship was approved and ordered to be distributed.
10. Treasurer reported the receipt of £2,000 from the Treasury, the second part of the grant to the National Physical Laboratory for 1906-1907.
11. Treasurer authorised to draw up to £200 from the Government Grant Reserve Fund, for expenses connected to matters referred to the Royal Society by Government.
12. Letter from Professor Herdman expressing appreciation on the Royal Society undertaking the publication of his Report on the Ceylon Pearl Fisheries.
13. Leave granted to Dr. W.H.L. Duckworth to have returned the original illustrations for his paper on conditions of the cerebrum in the human foetus.
Extent4p.; pp.286-289
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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